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Developer company Secure Code Warrior and independent provider of identity Okta have collaborated to deliver the Secure Code Warrior Connector for Okta Workflows, a solution for organisations and developers to write secure code from the start of the software development lifecycle.

Identity provider Okta has appointed Philip Goldie to the role of vice president for Australia and New Zealand.

Police in the UK have charged two of the seven teenagers they arrested on 25 March on the charge of being connected to the Lapsus$ group that has been in the news recently over attacks on Samsung, Microsoft and Okta.

Globant, an IT and software consultancy company based in Luxembourg, says it has found that a part of its code repository has been breached.

Proprietary video-telephony software company Zoom has abruptly sacked security researcher Bill Demirkapi who was working for the company's red team.

Identity services provider Okta took two months to reveal a breach at a third-party provider and waited until the data that leaked out was exposed by a group of attackers known as Lapsus$.

Identity services provider Okta has now changed its tune and says that 2.5% of its customers — which amounts to about 375 companies — have been affected by the January breach to which it admitted.

The chief security officer of the identity services firm Okta has issued an updated statement about the claims of a breach of the company, saying there has been no breach and everything is fully operational.

Authentication services provider Okta has allegedly been breached by the same group that got through the defences of Samsung and Microsoft, according to a claim made by the group on Monday, but the company has tied it to an event in January.

Data privacy will continue to become a more significant consideration and it’s going to be exceedingly difficult to do business anywhere in the world without encountering data privacy laws, according to Richard Marr, General Manager, APAC, Auth0, a product unit of Okta.

LogMeIn's password manager LastPass now supports federated login with Google Workspace.

COMPANY NEWS: Kong, creators of the leading service connectivity platform, has introduced KongForce, its second-generation partner program that now includes more than 200 partners, a tenfold increase since 2019. During this same period, Kong's revenue through partners and the channel doubled year over year and is poised to accelerate in the next 12 months. Kong has established partnerships with leading technology and service providers including AWS, Infosys, Okta, Publicis Sapient, Red Hat and Wipro, among others.

Security vendor BlackBerry has announced a technology integration between its Spark unified endpoint management product and Okta's Identity Cloud.

New private cloud deployment option offers customers greater choice, scalability, and reliability

COMPANY NEWS:  The Auth0 Identity Platform, a product unit within Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), today announced the launch of the Auth0 Identity Platform on Microsoft Azure. The launch gives customers the ability to choose Azure as their cloud deployment option from Auth0. The addition of Azure as an Auth0 private cloud platform option unlocks a secure cloud deployment option for organisations seeking strategic fit with their technology stack, supporting regional data residency capabilities and higher control over customer data.

Hardware authentication provider Yubico has announced its YubiKey Bio Series, the first from its portals to support fingerprint recognition for secure passwordless and second-factor logins.

COMPANY NEWS: Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced the latest enhancements to its next generation Nintex Workflow Cloud, designed for ops, IT, process professionals and power users to improve the way people work by making it faster and easier to manage, automate, and optimise business processes and workflows.

COMPANY NEWS: Solista, an award-winning Australian cloud transformation and security consultancy, has announced the formation of the Zero Trust Alliance, an integrated security offering combining best-of-breed technologies from market-leading security vendors, CrowdStrike, Netskope, Okta, Illumio, CyberArk and Mimecast.

We ask senior IT industry executives for their thoughts on the likely confluence of SDN, Cloud, Edge and Zero-trust in the near future.

Okta has successfully sealed the deal with Auth0, acquiring the identity platform at US$6.5 billion, after eight years of business courtship. The acquisition, says Okta, will drive its growth in the US$80 billion identity market.

Company News: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced innovations for the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform and new programs designed to secure digital businesses. New security solutions, resources for IT execs and practitioners, and deployment guides to expedite zero trust adoption are redefining the rules of IT security for today's internet-driven, cloud-first businesses. The combination of these offerings provides digital businesses a holistic approach to securing modern organisations and the pragmatic skills and blueprints needed to be competitive.